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BN 6378 |
| Description: |
EMD SD40-2 |
| Photo Date: |
6/13/1974 Upload Date: 4/17/2011 12:40:30 AM |
| Location: |
Seattle, WA |
| Author: |
Brian Ambrose |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
BN 6378(SD40-2) |
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| Title: |
BN 6529 |
| Description: |
On the afternoon of July 4, 1981 a series of events coalesced to produce a deadly and dramatic wreck that has few equals. As I left Trinidad, CO. on an Amarillo coal load we began to notice the sky above Raton Mesa darkening to a degree not often seen. Conversation was that, when this storm breaks, all hell's gonna break loose with it. We got a few raindrops on the windshield, nothing more. At Trinchere, CO. a train was in the siding waiting for us. We continued on to Texline, TX. and tied up, never knowing what had occured behind us. In the morning, after having been in town for over 14 hr. with no sign of a westbound train for us I inquired about the reason(s) we had not been called. I found out, soon enough. The storm we had seen forming did indeed break loose. The deluge it produced was of epic proportions. All the ditches, arroyos and gullies, plugged with years of accumulated brush and debris, were cleared out by the enormous amount of water produced by the storm. All this material had only one place to go - - Frijole Creek. A 90 ft. plate girder bridge spanned the creek at MP 227.78, a point nearing the bottom of a small hill with a cut and a left hand curve preceeding it. It was, at that time, well past daylight so, in "dark territory", no warning was available to the crew to announce the problem ahead of them. Extra 6529 east, a unit rail train of D&RGW cars headed for Amarillo, passed through the cut, rounded the left hand curve and plunged into what was estimated to be a 20 to 40 ft. wall of water. The bridge had been torn from the concrete abutments so 6529, obeying the laws of physics, arced forward and downward from the west abutment. The SD45 struck the east abutment about 15 ft. below its top surface with the second unit and the train adding their energy to the event. The results can be clearly seen in this series of pics that show the engines resting on the creek bed, partially buried in debris and surrounded by rail cars and bent, twisted rail. The head end crew perished in the incident and traffic was delayed for nearly 4 days as a result. The RR was severly criticized for running a train during such incredibly bad weather without the benefit of a track patrol preceding it. Settlements were forthcoming but the details were never revealed. |
| Photo Date: |
7/4/1981 Upload Date: 12/20/2009 7:54:04 AM |
| Location: |
Trinidad, CO |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
Wreck |
| Locomotives: |
BN 6529(SD45) BN 6378(SD40-2) |
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| Title: |
BN 6378 in the whiteface scheme |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
2/11/1996 Upload Date: 1/10/2004 6:29:54 PM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
David J Conway |
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| Locomotives: |
BN 6378(SD40-2) |
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788 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
ATSF 9509 |
| Description: |
Very interesting lash up embarks on their journey east. |
| Photo Date: |
4/7/1996 Upload Date: 2/28/2014 6:22:09 AM |
| Location: |
Tulsa, OK |
| Author: |
Joel Armstrong |
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| Locomotives: |
ATSF 9509(SF30C) BN 6378(SD40-2) HATX 907(SD45-2) |
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| Title: |
BNSF 8259 E/B |
| Description: |
BNSF eastbound California wine train splits the signals at the end of the double track at Madrone, NM. No number on 4th unit. |
| Photo Date: |
11/9/1996 Upload Date: 6/5/2012 5:10:35 PM |
| Location: |
Madrone, NM |
| Author: |
Lauren Scrafford |
| Categories: |
Roster,Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 8259(SD75M) ATSF 243(SD75M) BN 6378(SD40-2) |
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623 Comments: 0 |
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